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Nvidia RTX Spark comes to Windows PCs with Arm CPU, RTX GPU, and unified memory

1 June 2026 at 15:47

These days, Nvidia primarily sells AI data center products, and its traditional consumer devices feel like more of a side project. But the company occasionally still releases something designed for consumers. After a couple of years of rumors, Nvidia has announced an Arm-based chip designed to power Windows PCs. Dubbed RTX Spark, the new chip combines a 20-core Nvidia Grace CPU co-developed with MediaTek, up to 6,144 Blackwell-based GPU cores (the same architecture as the RTX 50-series GPUs), and support for up to 128GB of unified LPDDR5x memory.

Nvidia and its partners offered nothing about expected pricing, but both "slim Windows laptops with all-day battery life and premium displays" and "compact desktop PCs" are slated to be "available this fall" from partners including Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, MSI, Acer, and Gigabyte.

This isn't Nvidia's first chip for Windows PCs; earlier chips in the Tegra series powered several of the short-lived Windows RT tablets. But Tegra chips largely stopped appearing in consumer devices following the Tegra X1 in the late 2010s (variants power the original Nintendo Switch and the apparently unkillable Nvidia Shield TV box). Modern Arm-based PCs in the Windows 10 and Windows 11 eras have all used processors from Qualcomm.

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ROG Edition 20 junta a história com a inovação numa nova experiência “artilhada” para gamers

1 June 2026 at 11:00

A festa dos 20 anos da Asus Republic of Gamers (ROG) traz novidades para os gamers com uma seleção especial de produtos numa edição limitada para builds gamer de elevado desempenho. Do desktop ROG G1000 a motherboards, ecrãs, periféricos e cadeiras, a nova linha traz uma gama completa de produtos com design único.

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Um pôr do sol impossível, um cometa azul e outras imagens da NASA para descobrir em maio

31 May 2026 at 12:42

Entre galáxias espirais, auroras verdes e novas vistas infravermelhas da enigmática lua Titã, de Saturno, maio confirmou uma vez mais que a fotografia continua a ser uma das formas mais poderosas de explorar lugares onde, por agora, ainda não podemos chegar.

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South Portugal: a montra digital do que o Algarve tem de melhor para oferecer

31 May 2026 at 10:11

Tudo o que de melhor se faz no Algarve em termos de turismo, imobiliário, gastronomia, saúde, golfe e serviços premium estão reunidos numa única plataforma, no South Portugal. E apresenta-se com uma concierge digital chamada Maria.

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Ferrari Luce: o primeiro elétrico da marca foi revelado em Roma e a internet não perdoou

30 May 2026 at 18:02

O primeiro elétrico da Ferrari chegou com mais de 1.000 cavalos, 550 mil euros de preço, e uma tempestade de memes, críticas ferozes e até rivais a aproveitar o momento. A estreia do Luce foi tudo menos silenciosa.

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How NextEra Energy Wielded Political Power in Florida

29 May 2026 at 21:29
NextEra, which is seeking to buy Dominion Energy, has often butted heads with consumer groups, residents and journalists in its home state.

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A Dominion Energy power plant near Davis, W.Va. NextEra Energy’s political activities are expected to be scrutinized as it seeks approval of its purchase of Dominion.

How We See the Beautiful, Violent Sun

28 May 2026 at 15:16

The sun is one of the most studied objects in the history of science. The ancient Babylonians and Chinese tracked sunspots and solar eclipses, etching their observations into clay tablets; these records would outlast their civilizations. When the telescope arrived in the early 1600s, astronomers such as Galileo Galilei, Christoph Scheiner, and Johannes Fabricius turned these instruments toward…

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Nvidia kills Windows XP-era Control Panel "after 20 years of dedicated service"

27 May 2026 at 16:06

Shiny new Nvidia apps like the GeForce Experience and the "Nvidia app" have come and gone, but the old Nvidia Control Panel and its rotating green Nvidia logo have existed as an option for managing basic settings since it was originally introduced in 2006.

That's ending with version 610.47 of Nvidia's Game Ready and Studio drivers for GeForce GPUs. Nvidia says the old Control Panel will no longer be installed by default, since "all actively supported Nvidia Control Panel features for GeForce users have been modernized and transitioned" to the new Nvidia app.

"The NVIDIA app contains all of the modern functionality of the NVIDIA Control Panel available for GeForce RTX GPUs, and much more, while running faster and more efficiently," writes Nvidia Technical Marketing Content Editor Andrew Burnes in the drivers' release notes.

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A Powerful El Niño Is Forming. If History Is a Guide, It Could Hit Hard.

21 May 2026 at 18:36
The biggest episodes of the past have altered the course of human events, according to researchers. An emerging one is drawing historic comparisons.

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An illustration published in 1877 depicted a scene in southern India. Millions died from a famine that coincided with an El Niño that year.
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